Stan Gibson

Corporate podcasts from the likes of MassMutual Financial Group, General Motors, A.M. Best and IBM arent likely to bump workout music mixes from FitPod.com, comedy from Bill Maher and sports broadcasts from the most-popular list at Apple Computers iTunes store. But corporate podcasting has worked its way into the technology fabric of businesses. The advantages […]

Satyam Computer Services recent analyst day in New York was at once an occasion for self-congratulation among top management at the Indian outsourcer and a time to look skeptically at storm clouds that might be on the horizon not only for Satyam but also for its offshore outsourcing brethren. Satyam CEO Ramalinga Raju did the […]

Services as products? What will IBM think of next? When IBM recently announced two bundles of hardware, software and services, the company put its hype machine into overdrive, claiming that on the date of the announcement, the $626 billion services market “changes forever.” Please. Most of the time, press release language rolls off the backs […]

BOSTON—The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is doing more harm than good and must be overhauled, Alan Greenspan told a technology audience here. “One good thing: Sarbox requires the CEO to certify the financial statement. Thats new and thats helpful. Having said that, the rest we could do without. Section 404 is a nightmare.” Greenspans remarks came at […]

After one of the darkest periods in its half-century history, the IT profession matters again. Budgets are healthy, staffers are being hired and many executives are no longer thinking of cost cutting, but are thinking of building new applications to deliver a strategic edge to their corporations. That message emerged from the annual Society for […]

AT&T will bring back 2,000 in-house technical support jobs that had been handled by outsourcing providers. Half had been located in the United States, while the other half had been handled offshore, a company spokesman said. He declined to name the outsourcing providers. The workers support DSL customers who install their own service and have […]

DALLAS—Two veterans of ITs glory days say the best is yet to come. “We havent seen anything yet,” said IT industry legend Max Hopper, known as the father of Sabre, the worlds first computerized airline reservation system and currently president of consultancy Max D. Hopper Associates. “Ive never felt more exhilarated about the possibilities of […]

DALLAS—Web services have come out of nowhere to emerge as the top technology for 2006, according to a survey of senior IT execs. In a poll of 139 members of the Society of Information Management conducted in May 2006, the respondents placed Web services at the top of their technology to-do lists. Web services were […]

Would you want your browsers cache published? I didnt think so. Most people have a basic sense of privacy that includes keeping what we think, what we read and what we search for on the Web separate from the public realm. So when a Brazilian judge ordered Google to turn over the search records of […]

DALLAS—Education is our most important weapon in fending off the challenge of the global economy, according to former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. With world labor markets supplying low-cost employees in a number of fields, including IT, U.S. IT professionals will have to ratchet up their education and training to add value on top […]